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11pm: Falling Finotti
I've come to the conclusion that Andrea Finotti likes to play flops. He also likes to hang around in hands to see the turn. If there's a river to be played this kid isn't going to miss out.
That might be an exaggeration but every time I've walked past his table today, he's been involved. This tactic works well when the cards are falling in your favour. We saw this earlier when he was up to a little less than 100,000, but he's struggling now though and was just moved all-in for his last 11,000.
The action was three-way to a [2d][8d][5c] flop and Finotti moved all-in over the top of a 3,600 c-bet from the pre-flop aggressor. Both his opponents folded to his shove and he flashed the [8s]. -- MC
10.52pm: Booming big stacks
Kevin MacPhee (115,000), Nikolay Tsanev (125,000), Lex Veldhui (100,000) and Marco Traniello () have all broken the six figure mark. All stand a good chance of finishing the day as chip leader. -- RD
10.45pm: Liu owns Spinks
Xuan Liu was sat for some time staring at the re-raise which Jon Spinks had put in from the button. Liu had 2,200 in front of her in the hijack and Spinks 4,900. She stared at his chip, at the pot and then back at his chips. Spinks riffled throughout.
Liu eventually came back over the top for a total of 11,000 and Spinks flicked his hand away leaving himself with around 40,000. Liu seemed to have a little more, perhaps 45,000. She finished third in this event last season. -- RD


Xuan Liu
10.40pm: Lex Looter
Lex Veldhuis' stack now measures close to 100,000. He just won another pot, betting 5,300 on a board of [4c][qh][2d][3d][9h] which was called by Andre Coimbra, who then mucked when Veldhuis showed [as][qs]. - SB


Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis
10.30pm: Harman takes out another player from the same seat
Jen Harman eliminated Vladyslav Semenenko earlier and his seat was taken by Peter Dragar. He didn't realise the curse that was laid upon the seat and busted to Harman as well. We reached the table as all the chips were being passed Harman's way. His stack wasn't that deep so we think he committed himself pre-flop with [ah][qc].
Harman had "them" ([ac][ad]) and the [3d][2d][9d][qs][7s] came and went with a slight scare. She's up to 65,000 chips. -- MC
10.20pm: Maxed out
Max Pescatori is out. The Italian, who looks a little like my old English Literature teacher, moved in behind a raise to 2,550 from Manlio Iemina in the small blind. Pescatori, on the big, moved in for 8,000 which Iemina called in a flash.
[ad][qh] for Iemina.
[qc][jc] for Pescatori.
The board ran [5d][9h][8s][2d][3s] to send Pescatori out in level 7. - SB
10.10pm: Negreanu's heading home
Daniel Negreanu has been longing to head back to his home in Las Vegas for weeks, and now he has his wish. He was eliminated by fellow Canadian Tyler Bonkowski after all the chips went in pre flop.
Negreanu: [jh][9d]
Bonkowski: [qh][qd]
"Please don't let me win," asked Negreanu. "I want to go home."
The board ran [qc][3d][8s][qs][td] to make Negreanu a straight, but it was no match for Bonowski's quads that propel him up to 73,000 chips. - MC
10.05pm: Play resumes
We've just started the last two levels of the day and Kevin MacPhee and Marco Traniello are the big stacks to chase. MacPhee got off to a flying start and steadily chipped up, Traniello won a monster three-way pot to get his chips flopping quads and getting two players all-in. -- RD

PokerStars Blog reporting team in San Remo (in order of the score their names give them in Scrabble): Rick Dacey (21), Marc Convey (22) and Stephen Bartley (24). Photos by Neil Stoddart (14).


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